In the name of necessity
Subtitle: military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties
By: Marouf Hasian, Jr.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States; Civil rights -- United States; Necessity (Law) -- United States; Military necessity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the genealogical origins of necessity and military necessity; title: The capture of Major André; title: Cultural amnesias and legal recollections : forgetting and remembering the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war tribunals; title: Abraham Lincoln and ex parte Milligan; title: The military trial of Major Henry Wirz; title: FDR, wartime anxieties, and the Saboteurs' case; title: General MacArthur's tribunal and the trial of General Yamashita; title: The legal and public debates over the necessity of Bush's military order; title: The future use of military tribunals.